Thomas Hooker Quotes

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I am a big sinner.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.